1 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What is wrong with the woman?

A．She has a headache.

B．She got a bad cold.

C．She can’t fall asleep.

2. When is the deadline for the report?

A．Wednesday.

B．Thursday.

C．Friday.

3. How does the man suggest the woman deal with the report?

A．Improve it.

B．Leave it with him.

C．Submit it later.

2 . 阅读下面短文，根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要。
Work is a very important part of life in the United States. When the early immigrants came to this country, they brought the idea that work was the way to God and heaven. This attitude still influences America today. Work is not only important for the salary, but also for social and psychological working, being productive. For most Americans, they are what they do. What happens, then, when a person retires at the age of sixty-five or seventy? It’s easy to imagine that retirement is no easy thing. Retirees often feel they are unproductive and no longer needed by others.
Once people retire, they may also get into financial trouble. Many people rely on Social Security checks every month. During their working years, employees contribute a certain percentage of their salaries to the government. When people retire, they receive this money as income. These checks do not provide enough money to live on, however, because prices are increasing very rapidly. After retirement, they have to change their lifestyles. They have to spend carefully to be sure that they can afford to buy food, fuel, and other necessities.
Of course, not all senior citizens feel sad when they are in face of retirement. Working for so many years, they eventually have time to spend with their families or to enjoy their hobbies such as reading, traveling or joining some senior citizen clubs. Some continue to work part time; others choose to do volunteer work like helping young people to get started in new business.
American government is taking steps to ease the problems of retired people. They are building new housing, offering discounts in stores and museums and on buses, and providing other services, such as free courses, food service, and help with housework. It is wise to do so. Retired citizens are an important part of the population and their special needs must be concerned about. After all, everyone will be a senior citizen someday.
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3 .         I was ten when I first sat with my grandmother behind the cashier (收银台) in her general store.     1     I quickly learned the importance of treating customers politely and saying “thank you.”

At first I was paid in candy.     2     I worked every day after school, and during the summer and no weekends and holidays from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. My father helped me set up a bank account.     3    

By the time I was 12, my grandmother thought I had done such a good job that she promoted me to selling cosmetics (化妆品). I developed the ability to look customers directly in the eye. Even though I was just a kid, women would ask me such things as “What color do you think I should wear?” I took a real interest in their questions and was able to translate what they wanted into makeup (化妆) ideas.     4    

The job taught me a valuable lesson: to be a successful salesperson, you didn’t need to be a rocket scientist—you needed to be a great listener.     5     Except they are no longer women purchasing cosmetics from me; instead, they are kids who tell me which toys they would like to see designed and developed.

A．Later I received 50 cents an hour.

B．Before long, she let me sit there by myself.

C．I ended up selling a record amount of cosmetics.

D．Today I still carry that lesson with me: I listen to customers.

E．My grandma’s trust taught me how to handle responsibility.

F．Soon I found myself looking more beautiful than ever before.

G．Watching my money grow was more rewarding than anything I could have bought.

4 . Trying new things is the only way we can discover hidden talents. I __________ my career as an editor for a magazine. I didn’t really mind the work, but I wanted something more __________. Then I was offered a management __________ of a digital reading company. The job was a seemingly _________ mix of my skills and interests, so I jumped at it.

_______, soon after I joined the company, its model changed to focus on K-12 education, and everything about my position changed. I was asked to take on the __________ different roles of selling content to teachers and training people. I felt more than a little __________ my comfort zone.

I knew I wanted to grow as a(an) __________ and make a serious effect on the company. I told myself that everything feels __________ at first and I should at least try. __________, I felt like I didn’t have a(an) __________. I knew jumping out of the __________ was the right thing for me, even though it felt pretty awful.

I was fortunate to be __________ by very helpful people, both at work and at home. They kept __________ me. I spent hours researching my company’s _________. I asked lots of questions and spoke to many people in need. I looked for opportunities to put in extra _________. The more I did, the better I felt.

Over time, I discovered that the job was _________ I could do and liked doing. It was an amazing __________ to see the company grow and know that my efforts contributed to __________ success and that it’s important to take risks and accept new __________. Actually, there’s nothing worse than failing because you refuse to even try.

1.

A．started out

B．moved up

C．developed

D．spent

2.

A．steady

B．comfortable

C．paying

D．challenging

3.

A．guidance

B．suggestion

C．position

D．course

4.

A．loose

B．perfect

C．mild

D．complex

5.

A．However

B．Instead

C．Additionally

D．Thus

6.

A．slightly

B．completely

C．relatively

D．strangely

7.

A．inside

B．around

C．within

D．outside

8.

A．individual

B．consumer

C．leader

D．adult

9.

A．silly

B．tough

C．fresh

D．easy

10.

A．On the contrary

B．In brief

C．In a way

D．On one hand

11.

A．choice

B．idea

C．dream

D．reason

12.

A．control

B．touch

C．nest

D．company

13.

A．informed

B．surrounded

C．followed

D．impressed

14.

A．convincing

B．reminding

C．accessing

D．encouraging

15.

A．staff

B．income

C．products

D．conditions

16.

A．effort

B．money

C．offer

D．care

17.

A．anything

B．everything

C．something

D．nothing

18.

A．profit

B．reward

C．platform

D．behavior

19.

A．my

B．their

C．your

D．its

20.

A．opportunities

B．requests

C．cultures

D．services

5 . I had not yet had the opportunity to do work experience． Therefore， I was _____ to start it． I was a little nervous_____， but everybody was so friendly and welcoming that I felt at ease _____．

My first_____was to help with checking if the website links， telephone numbers and addresses were _____on the website． I also learned how to construct the weekly newsletter that is_____each Friday to all registered members．

During my work _____， the staff were always attentive and ready to   _____， which really made me understand how to work _____at the job I was doing． I also feel that I have become more _____and confident with learning new skills， being punctual and _____according to the dress code （着装标准）．

I would advise anyone_____to do work experience to be on time and   willing to learn new skills needed for an office _____． I can also say that although you will initially feel _____about your first day in work experience，   _____   you have become familiar with your job and the staff， you will soon feel a part of the _____．

I have thoroughly_____my experience and I am very grateful to all the staff for giving me the opportunity to work at their office and for making me feel _____．

In conclusion， I would _____everybody to undertake work experience﹣it is an excellent way to _____     skills and experience of a work environment and will make you feel more confident for future careers．

1.

A．eager

B．confident

C．patient

D．scared

2.

A．after all

B．at first

C．more or less

D．now and then

3.

A．frequently

B．eventually

C．immediately

D．occasionally

4.

A．plan

B．dream

C．task

D．attempt

5.

A．correct

B．elegant

C．smooth

D．steady

6.

A．turned over

B．given away

C．passed on

D．sent out

7.

A．absence

B．interview

C．application

D．experience

8.

A．help

B．cheer

C．accuse

D．scold

9.

A．regularly

B．effectively

C．comfortably

D．quickly

10.

A．satisfied

B．popular

C．familiar

D．reasonable

11.

A．analyzing

B．dressing

C．designing

D．trading

12.

A．affording

B．wishing

C．bothering

D．happening

13.

A．equipment

B．building

C．decoration

D．environment

14.

A．curious

B．concerned

C．nervous

D．crazy

15.

A．once

B．before

C．since

D．as

16.

A．team

B．country

C．job

D．family

17.

A．ignored

B．enjoyed

C．forgotten

D．started

18.

A．awful

B．energetic

C．awkward

D．welcome

19.

A．order

B．force

C．demand

D．recommend

20.

A．learn

B．require

C．acquire

D．master

6 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

If you ask middle school students what they want to be when they grow up, they might want to be a doctor or scientist. But if you ask them     1     more information about these jobs, they might not know much.

A recent study by Chinese Internet company Tencent     2     (suggest) that 60% of middle school students say they have little knowledge of their dream jobs. “In China, many middle school students only get professional information one-sidedly during their     3     (grow),” said researcher Liu Meng.” This gives them wrong     4     (idea) about some job.”

Getting more hands-on experience will allow young people to start their career paths much     5     (early) and allow them to make sure that the career which     6     (choose) is the right one for them .Michelle Ding,     7     18-year-old girl from Shanghai, spent her summer vacation     8     (take) part in the University of Chicago’s Pathways to Economics class. She learned     9     (extreme) more about economics by studying game theory. “At first, I was only interested in economics because my father works in this field, but now I’ve developed true enthusiasm for economics     10     will make it my career choice in the future.” Ding said.

7 . Job sharing refers to the situation in which two people divide the responsibility of one full-time job．The two people willingly act as part-time workers, enough hours between them to fulfill the duties of a full-time worker．If they each work half the job, for example, they each receive 50 per cent of the job's wages, its holidays and its other benefits．
Job sharing differs from conventional （常规的） part-time work in that it occurs mainly in the more highly skilled and professional areas, which require higher levels of responsibility and employee commitment．
Job sharing should not be confused with the term work sharing, which refers to increasing the number of jobs by reducing the number of hours of each existing job, thus offering more positions to the growing number of unemployed people．Job sharing, by contrast, is not designed to address unemployment problems; its focus, rather, is to provide well-paid work for skilled workers and professionals who want more free time for other activities．
As would be expected, most job sharers are women．A survey carried out in 1988 by Britain's Equal Opportunities Commission showed that 78 per cent of sharers were female, the majority of whom were between 20 and 40 years of age．Subsequent studies have come up with similar results．Many of these women were re-entering the job market after having had children, but they chose not to seek part-time work because it would have meant lower status．Job sharing also offered an acceptable shift back into full-time work after a long absence．
The necessity of close cooperation when sharing a job with another person makes the actual work quite different from conventional one-position jobs．However, to ensure a greater chance that the partnership will succeed, each person needs to know the strengths, weaknesses and preferences of his or her partner before applying for a position．Moreover, there must be a fair division of both routine tasks and interesting ones．In sum, for a position to be job-shared well, the two individuals must be well matched and must treat each other as equals．
1. In what way is work sharing different from job sharing?

A．Work sharing requires more working hours．

B．Work sharing is aimed at creating more jobs．

C．Work sharing provides a more satisfactory salary．

D．Work sharing depends on the employer's decision．

2. According to Paragraph 4, young mothers preferred job sharing to conventional part-time work mainly because ________．

A．they sought higher social status

B．they were over ideal working ages

C．they had difficulty finding full-time jobs

D．they had to take care of both work and family

3. In job sharing the partners should ________．

A．enjoy equal social status

B．have similar work experience

C．keep in touch with each other

D．know each other very well

4. The main purpose of the passage is to ________．

A．describe job sharing in general

B．discuss how to provide more jobs

C．recommend job sharing to women

D．compare job sharing with work sharing

8 . In the US, tornadoes(龙卷风） are responsible for 80 deaths and more than 1,500 injuries each year. Although they happen quite frequently, tornadoes are difficult to predict. Why? Tornadoes develop from storms, but only some storms are likely to become tornadoes. Scientists don’t know where and when a storm will touch the ground and turn into a tornado. Today, the warning time for a tornado is usually just 13 minutes.

Time Samaras is a storm chaser. His job is to find tornados and follow them.When he gets close to a tornado, he puts a special tool called a turtle probe on the ground. This tool measures things like a tornado’s temperature, humidity (湿度), and wind speed. With this information, Samaras can learn what causes tornadoes to develop. If meteorologists(气象学家) understand this, they can warn people about tornadoes sooner and save lives.

How does Samaras hunt tornadoes? It’s not easy. First, he has to find one Tornadoes are too small to see using weather satellites. So Samaras can’t rely on these tools to find a tornado. Instead, he waits for tornadoes to develop. Every May and June, Samaras drivers about 40,000 kilometers across an area known as ToknownTornado Alley, looking and hoping to spot a tornado.

Once Samaras sees a tornado, the chase begins. But a tornado is hard to follow. Some tornadoes change direction several times—for example,moving east and then west and then east again. When Sanaras finally gets near a tonrnado, he puts the turtle probe on the ground. Being this close to a tornado is terrifying. Debris (碎片) is flying in the air . Then wind is blowing at high speed. He must get away quickly.

The work is risky, even for a skilled chaser like Samaras. But danger won’t stop his hunt for the perfect storm.

1. What do we know about tornadoes?

A．They can be predicted by satellites.	B．They usually come down in winter
C．The warning time for them is very short .	D．They often develop into storms.

2. A turtle probe is used to                 .

A．predict tornadoes	B．collect information about tornadoes
C．chase tornadoes	D．decrease the power of tornadoes

3. The third paragraph is mainly about                 .

A．how tornadoes develop	B．how the turtle probe works
C．how powerful Tornado Alley is	D．how Samaras chases a tornado

4. According to the text ,the job of a tornado chaser is                 .

A．difficult and dangerous	B．stressful and troublesome
C．mysterious and interesting	D．exciting and popular

9 . 假定你是李华，正在 Columbia University 求学，想利用暑假时间在肯德基(KFC) 当一名服务生。请你给店长 Steven 写一封申请信，内容包括：
1. 自我介绍；
2. 申请的理由；
3. 联系方式。
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Steven,
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours sincerely,

Li Hua

10 . If you think about it, work-life balance is a strange ambition for a fulfilling life. Balance is about stasis(静止): if our lives were ever in balance—parents happy, kids taken care of, work working—then our overriding thought would be to shout “Nobody move!” and pray all would stay perfect forever. This false hope is made worse by the categories themselves. They imply that work is bad, and life is good. And so the challenge, we are told, is to balance the heaviness of work with the lightness of life.

Yet work is not the opposite of life. It is instead a part of life—just as family is, as are friends and community. All of these aspects of living have their share of uplifting moments and moments that drag us down. The same is true of work. Treat work the same way you do life: by maximizing what you love.

We have interviewed several anesthesiologists (麻醉师) about the thrills they feel in their jobs. One said he loved the thrill of holding each patient hovering at that one precise point between life and death. Another said she loved the bedside conversations before the operation aiming to calm the panic that affects many patients. Another was drawn mostly to the anesthetic mechanism and has devoted himself to defining precisely how each drug does what it does.

Think of your life’s many different activities as threads. Some are black and some are white. But some of these activities appear to be made of a different substance. These activities contain all the tell-tale signs of love: before you do them, you find yourself looking forward to them; while you’re doing them, time speeds up and you find yourself in flow; and after you’ve done them, you feel energetic. These are your red threads, and research by the Mayo Clinic suggests that doctors who weave the fabric (织物) of their life with at least 20% red threads are significantly less likely to experience burnout.

The simplest way for you to do this is to spend a week in love with your job. During the week, any time you find yourself feeling one of the signs of love write down exactly what you were doing in the column “Love”. And any time you find yourself feeling the inverse write down what you were doing in the column “Loathe”. By the end of the week you will see a list of activities in your “Love”column, which create in you a positive feeling, one that draws you in and lifts you up.

Our goal should be to, little by little, week by week, intentionally unbalance all aspects of our work toward the former and away from the latter. Not simply to make us feel better, but so that our colleagues, our friends and our family can all benefit from us at our very best.

1. What is the author’s attitude towards work-life balance?

A．Doubtful.

B．Disapproving.

C．Supportive.

D．Neutral.

2. “Red threads” in Paragraph 4 refer to the activities that __________.

A．arouse your passion	B．satisfy your desires
C．improve your motivation	D．require your efforts

3. Which of the following does the author probably agree with?

A．Red threads are necessary for a balanced life.

B．Recording activities helps create positive feeling.

C．Find love in work instead of keeping work-life balance.

D．Maximize what you love to remove the heaviness from work.